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Although LG's Smartphone division closed it's doors a few months back, a few devices which were in the final days of production have now slowly hit the inter webs showing the potential LG had when it came to making smartphones.The Velvet line - one of LG's premium smartphones -blending style and quality was due to see a higher performance successor called the Velvet 2 Pro which has leaked out in its unborn form. The Velvet 2 pro - nicknamed Rainbow internally packed a Snapdragon 888 chipset and 8GB of RAM and would have come with 128GB of ram, sadly the phone - even though it packed high end specs is now nothing more than a relic of the past. Below is an unboxing video of the said phone. The phone however is currently available for an amazing $170 - but it's only available for LG employees, and plus it won't get any updates either   Source - Slashgear

OG Velvet As you may have heard, LG shut its doors on its smartphone division Last month (April) after excessive losses as sales dwindled in the face of increased competition and lack of interest. Although most of its phones were top notch, LG couldn't target a specific segment and thus were all over the place when it came to naming and designing, But as a last Hurrah - The LG Velvet seemed like an excellent product as it ditched the long complicated naming strategy and brought premium design and features which have now sadly disappeared into the history of Android. But what if LG didn't abandon ship, well, according to Insiders, LG is still selling phones, but now only to its employees in the form of an unannounced device called the LG Velvet 2 Pro . The LG Velvet Pro improves upon the current Velvet and is said to cost a decent $170, the catch being that  only 3000 have been built (before the shutdown) and its sold to LG employees who are prohibited from re-selling these devi...